Decades of Loss, an Unsolved Mystery,
and a Rift Spanning Three Generations
Hazel DeFord is a woman haunted by her past. While berry picking in a blackberry thicket in 1943, ten-year old Hazel momentarily turns her back on her three-year old sister Maggie and the young girl disappears.
Almost seventy years later, the mystery remains unsolved and the secret guilt Hazel carries has alienated her from her daughter Diane, who can’t understand her mother’s overprotectiveness and near paranoia. While Diane resents her mother’s inexplicable eccentricities, her daughter Meghan—a cold case agent—cherishes her grandmother’s lavish attention and affection.
When a traffic accident forces Meghan to take a six-week leave-of-absence to recover, all three generations of DeFord women find themselves unexpectedly under the same roof. Meghan knows she will have to act as a mediator between the two headstrong and contentious women. But when they uncover Hazel’s painful secret, will Meghan also be able to use her investigative prowess to solve the family mystery and help both women recover all that’s been lost?
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Summary
From: Rebecca Maney
Book Title: Bringing Maggie Home
Book Author: Kim Vogel Sawyer
What do you like about this book:
"I know it's hard, honey, but you have to accept that your little sister is gone."
And just like that, Hazel Blackwell DeFord's life changed forever. She had turned her back on her little sister Maggie, for a matter of minutes, and now seventy years later, mystery still shrouds Maggie's disappearance.
Meghan DeFord has been issued a six week recuperation period from her job as a cold case detective, after a serious automobile accident resulted in a broken ankle. Flying from Little Rock, Arkansas to Las Vegas, Nevada, she plans to recuperate with her favorite person on the planet, her grandmother, Hazel DeFord. When it becomes apparent that Meghan's mother Margaret Diane has followed her there, the three DeFord women are forced to emotionally bend and stretch under the ever present tension sizzling between Hazel and Margaret Diane.
Quite by accident, in an attempt to be a peacemaker between the two, Meghan stumbles into a closely guarded family secret. Securing the assistance of her partner on the force, Sean Eagle, the two begin to dig into Hazel's recollections, never realizing that what they might discover could re-write their family history forevermore.
Creating an intriguing story line with four intrinsically different characters, maintaining their viewpoints within a blend of past and present circumstances, and at the same time deepening the impact with lovely spiritual significance, is not an easy accomplishment. "Bringing Maggie Home" is one of Kim Vogel Sawyer's very best!
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